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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Poland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Poland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Poland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Poland Leader Award

Overview

Jan Lubinski is affiliated with the Pomeranian Medical University in Poland. Their research spans significant fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as genetics, molecular biology, oncology, pathology and forensic medicine, and cancer research.

The scientist has a broad publication record covering topics including BRCA gene mutations in cancer, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, trace elements in health, cancer genomics and diagnostics, and DNA repair mechanisms.

Jan Lubinski's frequent coauthors include:

  • Jacek Gronwald
  • Anna Jakubowska
  • Cezary Cybulski
  • Steven A. Narod
  • Tomasz Huzarski

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, notably:

  • Nutrients
  • Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
  • Cancers
  • UNC Libraries
  • Biomedicines

Recent notable papers by Jan Lubinski include:

  • "Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction," 2021, published in Nature Genetics
  • "Cancer prevention with aspirin in hereditary colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome), 10-year follow-up and registry-based 20-year data in the CAPP2 study: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial," 2020, published in The Lancet
  • "Proteogenomic insights into the biology and treatment of HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma," 2021, published in Cancer Cell
  • "Integrated proteogenomic deep sequencing and analytics accurately identify non-canonical peptides in tumor immunopeptidomes," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Genome-wide association meta-analyses combining multiple risk phenotypes provide insights into the genetic architecture of cutaneous melanoma susceptibility," 2020, published in Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Average risks of breast and ovarian cancer associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations detected in case series unselected for family history: a combined analysis of 22 studies

    A. Antoniou;P.D.P. Pharoah;S. Narod;H.A. Risch

  • HNPCC (Lynch Syndrome): Differential Diagnosis, Molecular Genetics and Management - a Review

    Henry T Lynch;Jane F Lynch;Trudy G Shaw;Jan Lubiński

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • Long-term effect of aspirin on cancer risk in carriers of hereditary colorectal cancer: an analysis from the CAPP2 randomised controlled trial

    John Burn;Anne Marie Gerdes;Finlay MacRae;Jukka Pekka Mecklin

  • Poly(ADP)-Ribose Polymerase Inhibition: Frequent Durable Responses in BRCA Carrier Ovarian Cancer Correlating With Platinum-Free Interval

    Peter C. Fong;Timothy A. Yap;David S. Boss;Craig P. Carden

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

    Liisa M. Pelttari;Sofia Khan;Mikko Vuorela;Johanna I. Kiiski

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

    Ganna Chornokur;Hui-Yi Lin;Jonathan P. Tyrer;Kate Lawrenson

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Salpingo-oophorectomy and the Risk of Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, and Peritoneal Cancers in Women With a BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation

    Amy Finch;Mario Beiner;Jan Lubinski;Henry T. Lynch

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Pathologic Complete Response Rates in Young Women With BRCA1-Positive Breast Cancers After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

    Tomasz Byrski;Jacek Gronwald;Tomasz Huzarski;Ewa Grzybowska

  • Impact of Oophorectomy on Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Women With a BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation

    Amy P.M. Finch;Jan Lubinski;Pål Møller;Christian F. Singer

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna Jakubowska
Anna Jakubowska Pomeranian Medical University
Jacek Gronwald
Jacek Gronwald Pomeranian Medical University
Steven A. Narod
Steven A. Narod University of Toronto
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Rodney J. Scott
Rodney J. Scott University of Newcastle Australia
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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